If there’s a single person to be blamed for the killing of young people by the police, the army and even by village militias during martial law, it is Communist Party founder Jose Ma. Edjop rose in a year’s time to become one of the top leaders of the Communist Party. He was proud to tell me he was being deployed by Sison himself to Negros to set up the party committee there. I cannot fathom why those claiming such human rights abuses during martial law—especially the academics at UP and the Ateneo—totally ignore the fact that since its founding in 1968 by Sison, the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines declared war on the Republic. War is war, when not just hate but terror of unbelievable depths takes over men’s minds.

Source: Manila Times September 23, 2018 16:07 UTC